Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-11 | Page 6 | Engine Runs Wild and Kills Youth

ENGINE RUNS WILD AND KILLS YOUTH . NORTH PLATTE, Neb., April 10. ' A. J. Cooper, 23 years old, an employe of the Union Pacific railroad, was killed last night when he was struck by a switch engine that was running wild. Cooper stepped from behind one train into the path of the runaway locomotive. lo-comotive. Albert Wills, a workman, who wa9 near Cooper, boarded the engine en-gine but failed to stop it before Cooper was struck. An investigation of the accident was ordered by the railroad to 'ascertain who started the locomotive. locomo-tive. Cooper, who had been employed by the Union Pacific but a week, leaves a widow and one child.